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If you look at the history of physics, there have been plenty of significant discoveries (as well as misconceptions). As technology gets better and better, the time interval between notable findings seems to be decreasing -- and it looks like we're making progress in understanding how the universe works. (But who knows, we could also discover some phenomenon so puzzling that we'd have to re-write everything.) Obviously, we don't know everything yet, but here are just a few recent milestones that bolster the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Science has made a lot of progress, and most of that progress has been based on increasingly accurate measurements. Scientists have access to better and better tools that allow them to see ever smaller bits of matter. Here are some recent discoveries and some nifty new equipment that might help us see how more stuff works.